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While it is true that healthcare reform has introduced a number of new processes and protocols that doctors need to follow, along with a firehose of data that they cannot possibly hope to digest, it has also ushered in a revolution in analytics capabilities and administrative best practices that have the power to reduce burnout.

Predictive analytics efforts are often inspirational, exploring into genomics and Healthy Nevada’s goals to spread their sequencing and research efforts nationwide and to better improve the health care sector

Predictive analytics efforts are often inspirational, exploring into genomics and Healthy Nevada’s goals to spread their sequencing and research efforts nationwide and to better improve the health care sector

57% of patients who have been through the remote patient monitoring program at UPMC Magee-Womens Hospital have been able to avoid the one-week postpartum visit for a blood pressure check. Also, 88% of the patients who had gone through the program have come back for the six-week postpartum visit, compared with 30-40% nation-wide

In order to address some of these challenges facing ED care teams, Healthcare leaders in Texas partnered with Salt Lake City-based company Collective Medical to give care teams across the state access to the Collective network and care coordination platform.

According to a the results of a recent KLAS poll survey, more than two-thirds of providers say surveillance technology employed for sepsis detection has led to a significant improvement in patient safety outcomes, with some reporting a 50% decrease in mortality.

The tool known as Personalized Hospital Performance report Card allows individuals choose the data they feel it’s most important to them which may include mortality, readmissions, safety of care, timeliness of care, patient experience, efficient use of medical imaging and effectiveness of care.

Researchers at Harvard Medical School and West Virginia University were awarded $13.3 million in funding from PCORI for a trial that compares strategies for primary care providers in rural areas for treating people with major depressive disorders

Despite strong value-based program scores for 2018 compared to similar-sized non-AMCs, AMCs need to improve consumer-facing metrics to be at least competitive with non-AMC counterparts,” according to a Navigant report

With the use of a care coordination platform (HealthBI), Arizona-based Equality Health aims to relieve health plans from the responsibility of being “the keeper” of all patient data as well as improve care for the Hispanic population while simultaneously making the transition to risk-based accountability

Interactive patient systems (IPS) allow patients and families to take a more active role in the care process by using familiar devices and methods of engagement to make them aware of their health conditions and treatment options.

Lauren Faison, TMH’s service line administrator over regional population health& telemedicine shares her views and opinions on the creation and implementation of Telehealth Program in Tallahassee Memorial Hospital, Florida and how other healthcare organizations can adopt digital health

Through SHIN-NY, healthcare professionals in New York’s regional networks (or Qualified entities) are able to quickly access and securely exchange health information statewide once patients give their approvals. The Alerts are available across all eight SHIN-NY HIEs

Hospitals are mandated to report their readmission information to the Centers for Medicaid & Medicare Services (CMS)who introduced the Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program in 2012. The CMS then uses the data submitted by these hospitals to regulate and penalize those who have a higher than expected readmission rate.